I am sitting in this frosty Courtroom while the Judges decied my future life.. Im Lou Brown.. 36 years old as of last month... I applied for a divorce when i found my wife in bed. With a knight apprentice.. I been married for 22 years..While we never had children. I always wanted some... I run the local grocery store. The general goods store and the blacksmity in the back... the town had around 900 people in it and i ran a good store.. the local orphanage children would do deliveries for me for a few coppers a day. 

The reason i am sweating is because turns out that the knight apprentice that i beat the ever living shit out of.. was also his grandson. my current wife.. was absolutly beautiful... Red Hair beatiful hourglass figure. She was a dream... when we married she was below average skinny and looked like she always needed a meal.. Our parents set us up. I always enjoyed her company Thought we were soul mates... boy was I a fool she had been sleeping around for years and i had always been working from before the sun was up till just after the sun went down.. then i would go home..

However i alway took one day off a week. and i always only ate the food from home even if she was to tired to cook that day. i would set my own meals up... We were always affectionate. so i had no ideal that almost every man in town had slept with her.. and that every young boy before leaving had a open invitation to our home to spend the day with her.

Finally the judges gavel came down...i got the store she got the house...the house had a larger value then the store.. but i had been storing money under the floor boards. I had wanted to buy a large ranch for our children when they came... even though it had been twenty years i had been saving money a few coppers everyday. My thriftyness may have saved me some trouble. we also had to split the assest in the bank she got 40% of what was in the bank. i had the other 60.  I went home and gathered my stuff. being at home i realized clothing wise i had little of it... a couple suits. my work cloths for around the house. a few pants and vests boots and sleeveless shirts.

i gathered my riding raptor.. something that had gotten fat in the stable sinse i rode her so little. and had the other two follow with my chariet. threw my stuff into the back of the chariet.. dug under the floorboards here for the stuff i had hidden when i was younger... most of it was junk.. but i had my recurve bow down there and my armor i never actually used but had purchased. My backpacks and camping gear.. extra shovels.. everything i thought i would need while camping... 

sighing... in both my past life and this life I had picked bad women.. I knew i was not wrong in how i treated them.. some reason i just had that personality. that said i was a sucker..  However i had learned from past experiences... I always kept two set of books for noisy wives.. if they were a good wife.. every once in awhile i would simple stay away from home after work then show up with a surprise. A good wife needs gifts... A bad wife you need a back up plan... I honestly never thought i would need a back up plan with this women... 

I know that lots of people would have two books for tax collectors.. but i always been honest with my taxes... Its annoying but it is important to pay taxes. the more value your region has to the government the more likely improvements will happen in your region.. and a collection of a little taxes from everyone will pay for a road. a lot quicker then if i pay for it fully on my own..

At least in a relatively fair government... Ours does pretty good. we all have a regional representative.. and not to mention each region has there own private army. there is even the militia... which i donate to on a regular basis with basic armor that i craft myself in my spare time..its also a tax break for me.. since i get the full value of the armor and i only have to pay the very basic for the ores that are mined up. 

While i can do arrows.. i generally let the children from the orphanage make those.. the better ones are sold to the army and militia. the ones who are slightly messed up are given away for practice ammo... Are militia and army have more then decent archers.. thats what the children do in the back workshop each day unless i send them off on a errand.

thinking about all this... i realized.. this place is my whole life... i never actually gone on an adventure if this was back on earth. I would be the Npc shop keeper who sent people on collection quests... I need to go do something... i went to the Inn and paid for the night... then i walked over to the Orphanage.. 

Lily i called... Lily was the oldest helper here..Lily i call again as i barge in like i normally do..here she hollars back.. i follow the voice into the bathroom where she is busy giving about 8 children a bath in the large bathtub... she is soaking wet. And just as dressed as the children are... However i am not bothered by this... she used to help me take baths when i was younger... she not as young as she used to be. but she still slender and womenly. what up lou she calls to me. im divorced i say... Finally she sighs.. looking around there are a few more women folk helping the kids.. there our a total of 4 tubs each able to fit about 15 people here no dividers however..

I had actually set up the tubs about two years after the marriage..this is simple because i could always come after work and get a quick bath here before going to work.. 

lilly yeah she says ... i want to adopt everyone here into my family i speak slowly.. making sure she gets what i am saying the first time... 

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here in this world it does not take much for adoption... just like there not much to keep you from abandoning children.. also an adoption is not making children your children... it closer to adding them to a clan.. a honorary thing... they get to live with you.. once they are adults.. they can go there own way or stick with the family... really depends on the family...

for the children here there close to 22 of them at all different ages... however there close to 60 of them inside the orphanage..

most of the women are younger women who 1 grew up in the orphanage and got a local job. 2 are retired and lonely. 3 are prostitutes and use the orphanage as a daycare. and supply some income to the orphanage in general.

Lily gets a strange expression on her face.. Lou you do not even know how to take care of children... you do not have any..

true ... but i often look after many of these kids. and supply jobs for them.. I at least can find them work when they get older..

how are you going to feed them. even your store does not make enough to take care of all of these kids.. thats true.. however if i add them to my clan. which tomorrow i will register a clan. i can give each child a task and sell the procides.. plus i have a bit of a plan..i still working out the details in my mind..

how are you going to watch all the children she said.. there sixty of them...smiling big .. i reply all marry all you girls here and make you my wives....

......lily.......

marry all of us you say...

yup i will marry all the girls here and make you my wives. me

who are you going to marry then. lily

all the women who want to marry me of course. me

adrien you serious. your going to marry all of us..

sure if you will have me..

why did you never ask us to marry you before...

i was happily married. and loved my ex of course..

does that mean you love us...

not really but it is very convientent and i rather like you women who give so much for so little.

several women asked me different questions and some of the older girls wanted to know if i was going to marry them also... you need to be 15 before ill marry you... if your not that old you can just wait while being part of my clan. and if you do not want to marry me there no pressure.. just who wants me.

that night when the prostitutes came in they heard i was going to marry all the women who wanted me... and adopt the kids... untill i explained i would marry them also if they would stop there jobs.. 

i left late.. that night... one of the girls acompanied me to my inn and i used her hard. the next morning even though i was still tired i got out of the inn. and went to the town office to pay 3 gold to set up a clan registry there lilly and many of the other girls. came up and told me there names and the names of children who would be adopted. there was a total of 96 names in all. then i sent a older boy with my riding raptor to a actually city to deliver a message to several merchant friends of mine.. we sent out invitations. and each night a different girl would acompany me to the inn..

after a few days a few more women added there names to the clan roster.. it was almost one women to every four children now. the young boy i had sent.. came back with letters of reply from almost every one of my friends.. i let a couple of the women run the store while i stayed in the back of the workshop cafting armor. shields and helms..

3 weeks went like this. my ex has been staying away from the shop... and her and a new boyfriend have left town after putting up my old house for sale... the house was sold quickly and while it was a sprawling home.. after taking everything out of there. and realizing how little of me was in there.. i did not desire my old home anymore.. instead i wanted to go on an adventure..

a few trailers came in yesterday.. filled with ore and recurve bows.. some friends from the militia.. have started to train the young boys in the art of staying alive.. i would actually take the boys to a martial arts dojo later to learn how to fight.. lilly is starting to look tired. but very energetic.. i slept with her last night.. i wonder if i was to rough with her..she was surprisingly voracious... of the women i have married... only a couple of the older girls are virgins.. from the children i adopted..i was happy and surprised that a pair of sisters agreed to marry me.. one however was 14 years old. so she has to wait one year before her offical marriage will happen.

A few mages came in today.. they will teach the basics of magic to all of us.. i actually have the basics down already.. i have light, plant, healing, water and ice magic. its a decent combination.. i often put chilled ice above the rafters in buckets.. and let water flow over the buckets to sprinkle outside.. it keeps the building very cool in the summer and helps the vegitables.. not everyone has external mana.. about one in 3. however even that has a large difference for talent... there are of course external options to make it easier for less gifted mages keep up with mages that have higher gifts... 

everyone has a miniscule amount of every type... its like the building blocks of life here if you are alive you have some of everthing.. but what you can express. is the gifts that are given to you. Talent in expression of gifts can help you become a well know name.. however with enough hard work. anyone can do magic.. sorta like if you learn coding.. anyone can do coding.. you just have to learn coding first before you do it.

and just like those who have more gifts of external magic.. there are also those who are more gifted with internal magic... these people easily become blade dancers knights assasins.. all those fantasy jobs.. they also make great day labor and bouncers.. something that not so fantasy but also pays well.

everyone was getting the gifts classified.. however i did not want them to know what they were gifted at. except the external magic users. that needs training that obviouse.

within 3 weeks of my divorce... behind the inn and behind the store where many wagons.. however only a few of the wagons where the normal general wagons used for coaches or carrying merchandise.. i had ordered kitchen wagons.. a wagon that could easily be turned into a foundry or a forge.  specialty wagons.. everything a city needed was slowly assembling behind the clan.. of course my gold was disapearing also.. but i knew what i wanted.. then i cleared out the blacksmithy.. the fletcher shop.. and made the kids move the tools out of the store to a wagon.. the armor was loaded.. the recurve bows were passed out.. the orphange was sold.. as well as the stores.. once everything had been passed over we loaded onto the wagons.. and headed out of town.. we were headed to the next big town..